Week 3 discussion - Question 2

The books defines race as "the primary aspect of personal identity." It is what people classify a person as just by looking at him/her. I definitely do not believe it is a useful way of classifying people because race comes with many stereotypes that is not true for many people in that race. Race is also mistaken easily so it cannot be an accurate way to determine who people are. Some person will see an Asian person and automatically think she's Chinese, but in reality she's actually Vietnamese. That type of confusion is common among many people that it cannot be good to use it as a way to classify people. Also, race makes people bias. A more popular race, like Caucasian may be treated much better than someone who is African-American, Asian, or Indian. I also definitely believe that the Census Bureau should allow people to check multiple races because nowadays, more interracial relationships are going on, resulting into mixed children. These children should be able to identify both races that they are. However, even though they define themselves as a certain mixed race, they should still not be classified in that way because personality is still more important than the color of your skin, your heritage, or the family that you were born in.